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The Rules: Write a Valentines story appropriate for children (children here defined as ages 12 and under) using a maximum 214 words in which someone is hopeful! Your someone can hope for something good or something bad. Your story can be poetry or prose, sweet, funny, surprising or anything in between, but it will only count for the contest if it includes someone hopeful (can be the main character but doesn’t have to be) and is 214 words.

Check out all the other fun stories at www.SusannaHill.com/blog

And here’s my entry:

The Heart of the Heart

Once there was a little heart.

It had two hills on the top.

It had a pointy point on the bottom.

But…

The heart of the heart was empty.

Sheer.

See-through.

No one wanted a blank heart.

Especially not on Valentine’s Day.

Hearts were supposed to be red. Pink on occasion. Definitely colorful.

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